BLACK AND WHITE PHOTOGRAPHY AT SCHOOL

The imagination sees what it wants to see. Art can be found in anything in our lives everyday. If you look at the school, you may think it is a boring school, but sometimes you can find inspiration in the oddest of places. When you find your inspiration, you change the way it looks and can make it into something completely different.

THE CROSS - Since this is a Catholic school, I decided to add an element of our Christianity into this task. If you take a look of this picture, the first thing you see is Jesus on the cross, but what is so fascinating about this picture? It could actually be a picture taken from up high and the mountains formed this when you change the picture around.

For this picture, you could find inspiration in seeing Jesus on a cross, even if you are not religious, (hopefully no morbid ideas come to mind.) Religion can be a form of art. If you care a lot about it to the point where you can express your love about it, then it is a form of beauty, an art. Art doesn't have to be about something you HAVE to create, you can also appreciate it. Having an appreciation for something is an art.

I created this picture by well going into the chapel and taking a picture of the cross. Then once I got it up on Photo shop, I converted it into Black and white and changed the filter to Note paper, and changed the contrast and shadows on it.


THE CEILING - The element I wanted to show was art. The art room came to mind because well, it is an art room. Again, everyone has their own ideas and imagination and can get inspiration from anything, even another person. So, as you can see in this picture, anyone can have a good idea and make it work, even if it doesn't seem right to one person, it may make sense to a different person.

I had to change the picture to black and white and changed the filter to Note Paper, because I wanted it to match and go together with my picture above. THE CROSS. I had to cut some ceiling tiles and paste them onto blank tiles and areas with lights to make the picture more artsy. Sometimes, the whole ceiling doesn't have to be covered for you to be touched by the artwork. Once I put them over the blank areas, then I used feathering and deleted some parts around the picture so that it would fit in the area better and not look like I photo shopped it. Not all artwork has to look beautiful or pretty. As long as there is someone to acknowledge it, then it doesn't matter. The only thing that matters is if you are happy with your work, and you can have at least one more person appreciate what you have done.

- Gorecki.

Blending Fun

Today, I decided to make a blend. I haven't made one in a while but I hope it is satisfactory. The blend is of Candica Accola from The Vampire Diaries. I was watching the show the other day and I decided that I wanted to make a picture of her. Credit of pictures from Candica-Accola.net. Thank You. I just played around with buttons until I came up with something that I thought was alright. I will probably make another one but for now, enjoy.

- Gorecki.

FUN

While i was home today, I decided to take a picture off the internet of a girl and change it and make her into a were-girl. The before and afters are there and I have decided to call it "IN THE SHADOWS." Then I put a copyright on my work. Just in case.

To make this picture, I had to add colour to the eyes and mouth while making the rest of the picture black and white. To do this I added layers. Layers are what you need for you to succeed. They really help you keep track of things, and if you screw up, you can always delete them and re do it. I changed the opacity on everything and then added dimensions and created depth. It looks like she is in the shadows. Then, the blood going down her chin, I cut it out from another picture and resized it, then changed the opacity on it. I hope you like the picture. :)

- Gorecki.

The New Kid At School Assignment

For this assignment, we were told to take three class pictures from last year, from any three people in our class. Then we had to take different features from those people and make an entirely different person, yet still having the picture look realistic and not like Mr. Potato Head. Something interesting about this picture I created is that this girl looks a bit like my hair dresser. What a weird coincidence. I will name her Jane, after my hair dresser.
BEFORE - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - AFTER

This is how I made Jane.

I took Jill's face, erin's mouth, and my eyes and morphed them together. I used the cloning brush and took away Jill's eyes and mouth, leaving her nose intact. Then, to get Erin's mouth and my eyes, I used the lasso and feather and copied them in the picture and pasted them where I wanted them. Then I used the lasso and feathering to blend everything together to make it as seamless as possible. I used other students pictures to cut out the top of the shirt and the school logo by using lasso and cutting them and pasting them onto Jane; then I blended everything together again. Then, using the lasso again, I drew around the hair and changed the colour using the Enhance - Adjust Hue/Saturation tool, changing her hair to strawberry blonde. After, I used the cloning brush to try to cut around the long hair and make it not seem very photo-shopped. Lastly, using the lasso I drew around the eyes and changed the colour using the Enhance - Adjust colour curves tool, changing the colour of her eyes, my eyes, from blue-ish brown, to hazel eyes. I looked over my picture again and touched up a few things I wanted to fix, added a nose piercing and voila! MEET JANE, the newest member to our Our Lady of Lourdes Catholic High School. I hope you find her visually appealing.

I feel like I accomplished what I had set out to do. I think I created a very realistic new person, and I'm very proud of Jane. I hope you like her as much as I like her. :)

- Gorecki.

MY MR (OR Ms.) POTATO HEAD

We were told to make a potato head person. So I decided to make my person a bit, well different. I personally enjoy making pictures a bit out of the ordinary and fictional. Star Wars is something that is very unexpected.

I secretly, which isn't a secret anymore, used this potato head person to show what I would want to be if I was in a movie like Star Wars. If I could be anyone in a Star Wars movie, it would be a villian; preferably darth vador. Sometimes you wish you could play the bad guy cause you know that if you acted like that in reality, you would be in a lot of trouble.

This person I made has weird looks. She has big features on her face, or around her face. Sometimes weird faces can be very interesting. Also, I wish i had that hair. Why not make a kick-a** amazing person? Though sometimes, reality is better than fiction.

- Gorecki.

FIRST CLASS RESPONSES

For this class, I want to be able to learn different techniques at showing my vision of what I see, and to see other people's perspectives; to learn more about them. I love to express myself using art and creating something visual that can make people think and imagine a world outside of their own, a world I see.

We viewed some artwork by Josh Sommers and I think he has a very interesting eye for art.I personally didn't like him drawing himself and the angry stomach; the sunset in the back did not make the picture work. It was interesting but not very visually appealing to me. I did like the tree legs because I thought it was weird and different. How many times will you see someone with stump legs? I enjoy pictures that they take different images and blend them together forming something entirely different and unique. It is more imaginative and gets my attention to visualize a world outside my own. He seems to do that.

"NO GREAT ARTIST EVER SEES THINGS AS THEY REALLY ARE. IF HE DID, HE WOULD CEASE TO BE AN ARTIST." - Oscar Wilde.

I feel that every person sees things differently than they truly are. Everyone is an artist in their own way by how they see something to what they can imagine it to be. Though, this quote can be correct. If someone has no opinion, they are sort of boring, and they can't seem to imagine something that is not always what it seems to be.

- Gorecki.

SCHOOL MEDIA ARTS

This is a new blog i have created to post for my school class *Media Arts. Please refrain from using any of my pictures. And if you do please credit. Thank You Very Much. Hope you enjoy this Mrs. Reidel. :)

( Dali is one of my favourite artists. I hope you enjoy him aswell. I went to see an exhibit of him and his work is amazing. I have one at my house. Alice in Wonderland Collection Piece )

- Gorecki.